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When we go to do a hire, our bylaw officers are working with revitalization, ill be sharing this information with them to say these are the key neighborhoods you need to be in touch with as well as the different constables and beat officers to say, look, this is a problem and this is whats trending in your neighborhood. So its been very beneficial to us in terms of how we deploy our resources. Five neighborhoods accounted for 46 percent of the graffiti vandalism observed in 2012. Even though i showed you in that last slide that downtown is decreasing, it still is one of our most significant ne...

For dpw, regarding the ghosting, typically when that happens, do you have individuals that are actually trained in the removal and how to remove it properly . Because based on the material thats actually being placed on the wall and the wall that the type of wall that is being placed on, do people just go out and have one particular product that they put on and expect it to come off, or is there some training thats going on to find out, okay, this is the application we need to use for this surface and this is the, you know, a different application we need to use for another surface . And how c...

The building, we just explained, by putting the pigment further in in that substrate. And or even worse, actually really dee facing the surface. When its historical heritage buildings, theres no return unless you do a major restoration. And this is what i dont understand. The citation is fulfilled just because that pigment on the surface was taken, but the design is still there. A good example is van ness and ellis not too far from here. And there is a corner building, beautiful onestory brick building. And you see shadow over shadow over shadow. I think its to me, its almost like the vandals ...

Of our forms and criteria that they go through and the Property Owners are also required to sign off a form giving the volunteer Agency Permission to paint their building. So, were distancing ourselves from that so we dont have a problem. Before i became a consul ant i was with city of san jose antigraffiti for 10 year. We ended up with over 3,400 graffiti volunteers. Thats a big number. And the number of first of all, we did a good job training them and we made sure that if there were that they knew if there was anything out there, somebody watching them or a gang area, a gang tag, we didnt w...

For probation officers. This is done through a public grant. Its a very effective program. We have been able to turn a lot of kids around, restore justice. We get a lot of positive feedback from the community, a lot of other officers are happy to get the overtime. And as an officer, youre really able to facilitate the program well because you are able to put on a lot of different hats, communicate with probation, you communicate with Traffic Court judges, with Community Referral center, and with station personnel. So, you really act as a good communicator and facilitator in the program from a ...